Educational software on classroom PC.

[Picard]

End of the year school holidays are here and it's time to overhaul my classroom PC's again. Primary School classroom. Grades R, 1 - 7.

They are relatively old computers: 3.2GHz celerons. Socket 775 mobo, 512MB RAM. With Integrated video processing.

Up till now I've always had 2 partitions with Edubuntu 9.04 on one and XP on the other ... and I think I will continue with this.

I've downloaded Edubuntu 11.10 although I see that the minimum is in fact 512MB with 1GB being recommended. And I'm planning to install XP again. How do you think Win 7 will run on these PCs?

We've got the CAMI range of educational software which I will install, but what other, FREE, software would you also install on these computers if they were for your kid at school?

 

[oldhat]

Here are a few links that may interest you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
https://schoolforge.net/
http://www.educational-freeware.com/
http://www.africaeducation.org/teachers'_resources.htm
https://www.ed.org.za/index.php/teachers?layout=blog
http://www.futureed.co.za/

 

[NomNom]

It should run, but isn't is possible for you to upgrade the Ram? I don't recommend Windows 7 to any of my clients if their system has less than 1GB of ram.

A quick google revels the following information:

Windows 7 system requirements
How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB?
512MB RAM Performance Comparison: Windows 7 vs Vista vs XP
Windows 7 - Install Windows 7 on Computer with Less than 512MB RAM

Sorry I have no suggestions on free educational software that you can make sure of. Maybe you can ask Microsoft to sponsor you with Encarta kids 2008? I don't see why they would object seeing that the whole Encarta range has been discontinued.